Materials Science

The extreme lack of all raw goods and materials drove Materials Science to become a topic of great interest during The Rebirth. Special focus on limiting the use of any materail that was only available in a finite quantity.

Metals, stone and other valuable materials were essentially used up by The Priors. Conservation efforts focus heavily on using as little raw material as possible, and a resulting technology was that most important things (homes, buildings, vehicles, armor) were self healing, self repairing, or self upgrading.

Housing
Housing has changed drastically. Most structures are built to have extremely long lifespans and utilize some form of bio-circuitry to create a living house. For example, when a new room is needed, you can ask the house to grow it for you.

Computing
Physical computers no longer exist. Advances in materials science have allowed small local storage, processing and communications devices to be embedded directly in the human body. Very high end systems for military and elite citizens utilize a form of nanotechnology that distributes common computing tasks across millions of individual nodes within a body.

Transportation
Getting around in an arcology or mini-arc is usually by foot. Conveniences like elevators are usually powered by human power (pedal, push or hand-wheel). Transportation in the wastelands is either really high tech, or really low tech - horseback.

Metallurgy
Shape changing metals, yo.